Anne of Green Gables June 16

 We rode a very pleasant 37 miles from Charlottetown to Cavendish, with a stretch of well maintained trail, a sunny ride through rolling farmland, a foggy ride along the shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and a  nice bakery stop about half way through the ride.  Cavendish is the town that Lucy Maud Montgomery fictionalized as Avonlea in her Anne of Green Gables series.  Those of us who grew up on the books and shared them with our children were delighted to visit the Anne of Green Gables Heritage Site right next to our motel.  We toured the house that had belonged to Montgomery’s cousin, on which she based the Green Gables house and walked in the woods that were described as Anne’s haunted woods in the book.  We agreed that it felt a bit like a pilgrimage. 

A foggy shoreline

A statue of a fisherman seen through the fog

If you are looking for Green Gables, a picture is enough.

The famous Green Gables

And a Lego model of the house

Lucy’s bedroom, which looks pretty much the way I pictured Anne’s room. 

The woods didn’t seem very haunted on a beautiful afternoon.

Forget-me-nots in the woods, appropriate for a day I will remember.